up until the arrival of the European Marty fought their Wars were traditional weapons such as Taha and MIDI while these weapons were fierce enough the introduction of the musket from around the turn of the century changed everything gained through trade with party huh these weapons gave the tribes who possess them a huge advantage over their enemies the power of the musket as an instrument of trade was he meets large quantities of food and flags were traded to get them as more transcode muskets more battles followed either in self-defense for land or sometimes revenge the story ins believed the musket was killed over 20,000 people northern tribes such as Ngapuhi from around the Bay of Islands launched bloody attacks on the tribes to the south then tune tribes in the central North Island such as natty to rangatira and the autonomy key allies launched attacks on tribes in the lower North Island and the South Island one of the most important effects of these attacks was that those tribes without muskets were forced to seek trade with the Europeans in order to get them without muskets they often had no chance of resuming their lives or their freedom tribal boundaries changed rapidly as a result in the 1830s all the tribes had muskets and the kind of military balance of power was starting to occur although in many respects Marty waves of life values and customs remained as they had been the introduction of the musket changed New Zealand forever populations had shifted power had changed and this new technology now tied Maori to the outside world as never before